| 释义 |
eater|ˈiːtə(r)|
Also 1–5 eter(e, 5 etar.
[f. eat v. + -er.]
1. a. One who eats; also with up, a consumer, devourer, and with object n. prefixed, as bread-eater, flesh-eater.
a1000Prov. 18 (Bosw.) Eteras, commessatores. 1340Ayenb. 47 Ase byeþ þe mochele drinkeres and eteres. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 267/2 Thou etar of porrete wene thou to take me out of myn hows? 1483Cath. Angl. 118 An Eter, comestor. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xxxvi. 13 Thou art an eater vp of men, and a waister of thy people. 1625–6Shirley Maids' Rev. iii. ii, Do I look like a spider-catcher, or toad-eater? 1710Fuller Tatler No. 205 ⁋2, [I] always speak of them with the Distinction of the Eaters, and the Swallowers. 1807Sir R. Wilson Jrnl. 7 June Life (1862) II. viii. 253 We slept like pudding-eaters. 1837J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1842) VI. vii. 95 It severs the fruit from the eater.
fig.1829E. Elliott Vill. Patriarch Notes 179 Unless the bread-tax-eaters can be induced to convene.
b. with adj. prefixed, as great, moderate, etc.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 37 They are great eaters. 1809J. C. Moore Camp. Spain 62 He [Sir John Moore] was a very plain and moderate eater. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. III. viii. v. 43 He is no great eater.
c. transf. Of chemical corrosives.
1610Markham Masterp. ii. cxxx. 432 Litergie, or lime, in lye..are likewise very violent and strong eaters.
2. A fruit that eats well, or is intended to be eaten uncooked (cf. cooker 2).
1906N. & Q. V. 156/1 The apples with none, or only small pips, were not so good as eaters or cookers. 1930Observer 11 May 13/2 The blossom is as thick..on the hardy ‘cooker’ as on the shy and delicate ‘eater’. 1953E. Hyams Vineyards in England ix. 78 This [grape] is quite a good eater.
Hence ˈeatress [see -ess], a woman who eats.
1834Beckford Italy II. 244, I never beheld eaters or eateresses lay about them with greater intrepidity. 1840New Month. Mag. LIX. 312 In a salon filled with the insatiable eaters and eatresses of macaroni. |